Gun used in Berlin Christmas attack matches one found on Anis Amri

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Italian forensic police have confirmed that the gun used in the Berlin Christmas market attack matches the weapon found on Anis Amri, the Tunisian terror suspect, after he was shot dead in Milan last month.

Italian police shot a bullet in a simulator at Tuscolano laboratories in Rome, and then compared the scratches with those found on the bullet cartridges recovered in Berlin, after 12 people in a crowded marketplace were killed by a lorry on December 19.

Anis Amri, 24, is believed to have killed 12 people by mowing them down with a lorry on December 19

Amri was killed by Italian police in the suburbs of Milan, but he was able to shoot another policeman on his shoulder before dying.

The bullet found in the shoulder of the policeman was too damaged, so forensic police had to simulate a new shot and compare the scratches with those found by German police.

German and Italian police are cooperating closely and the Italian investigators are now trying to understand if the gun was previously used for other crimes and how Amri got it.